San Bernardino Tax Official Faces Corruption Trial
An ex-assessor for San Bernardino County has been charged with eight felony counts that include grand theft, drug possession and misappropriating public funds.
Watch CBS News
An ex-assessor for San Bernardino County has been charged with eight felony counts that include grand theft, drug possession and misappropriating public funds.
The race to replace Jerry Brown as state attorney general may have opened up, but election officials warn there's still a ways to go until a winner is declared.
Officials say the funds will be used to purchase high-tech gadgets like a $1 million vehicle designed to handle hazardous chemical and biological materials.
First, he was ahead. Then she pulled away with it. Then he crept back into the lead. Then she had it...solid. And was declared the winner by some. And he declared he was the winner. But...not so fast!
Keith Olbermann apologized to his fans -- but not NBC News -- on Monday for the "unnecessary drama" surrounding his two-day suspension for making political donations.
Now it's the socialite network -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has joined Facebook, launching a series of official pages offering the website's 500 million users daily updates on her engagements, the royal household said Sunday.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is defying pundits who thought he was too liberal even for California.
The new commandant of the U.S. Marines Corps said Saturday that now is the wrong time to overturn the "don't ask, don't tell" policy prohibiting gays from openly serving in the military, as U.S. troops remain in the thick of war in Afghanistan.
A little relief for Boeing workers in Long Beach, after President Obama announced an agreement Saturday to sell C-17 cargo planes to India.
Four days after he prematurely claimed victory, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley is trailing by more than 17,000 votes in the race for state attorney general.
Nancy Pelosi, the nation's first female House speaker, said Friday she will try to keep her spot as leader of the House Democrats despite huge election losses that cost her party the majority.
It looks like Californians are growing weary of the ballot box: preliminary results from Tuesday's vote show about 56 percent didn't even bother to vote.
A Superior Court judge questions whether corruption charges brought against Bell administrators by Attorney General and Governor-elect Jerry Brown are fueled by political motives.
A new state report shows 67.5 percent of California prison inmates who were paroled in 2005-06 returned to prison within three years.
Dipping into their personal fortunes to finance a political campaign turned out to be a losing investment for several candidates trying to break into political office.
